Hannah Arendt Quotes about Reality

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Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Hannah Arendt

Reality, Expression, Adherence

Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

Hannah Arendt

Reality, World

Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.

Hannah Arendt

Reality, Differences, Victory

Hannah Arendt (2012). “Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Hannah Arendt

Beautiful, Reality, Isolated

Hannah Arendt (1957). “Rahel Varnhagen: the life of a Jewess”

Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

Hannah Arendt

Loneliness, Fate, Reality

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Hannah Arendt

Reality, World, Ideology

Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

Hannah Arendt

Reality, Thinking, Five Senses

Hannah Arendt (2017). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.553, Penguin UK

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

Hannah Arendt

Animal, Reality, Ideas

Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”

The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality.

Hannah Arendt

Running, Past, Reality

Hannah Arendt (1974). “Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

Hannah Arendt

Running, Reality, World

Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

Hannah Arendt

Memories, Powerful, Reality

Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt